Calum McFarlane labelled Levi Colwill\u2019s performance as \u201cexceptional\u201d after the defender made a successful return to action in Chelsea\u2019s 1-1 draw at Liverpool.<\/strong><\/p>\n Colwill, recently back from a long-term knee injury, played the full 90 minutes at Anfield as the Blues ended a six-match losing run with a hard-earned point.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Interim head coach McFarlane was full of praise for the 23-year-old and suggested he has now put himself firmly in contention to start against Manchester City next weekend in the FA Cup final.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought he was exceptional today,\u201d McFarlane said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really pleased for Levi. He\u2019s been injured for a long time.<\/p>\n \u201cTo play his first 90 minutes at Anfield away, when the team aren\u2019t particularly in the best form, to go and put that level of performance in, doesn\u2019t only show his level of talent and quality, it shows his mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n McFarlane utilised Marc Cucurella in a more advanced role on the left -a\u00a0 tactical move he felt caused Liverpool problems.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cCucurella is not a winger, but even when he plays left-back or when he rolls into midfield, his movement off the ball is of a real high quality.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s something that we knew with him in that position we could maybe expose. I thought he was unlucky not to get an assist.\u201d<\/p>\n Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Calum McFarlane labelled Levi Colwill\u2019s performance as \u201cexceptional\u201d after the defender made a successful return…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"WhatsApp\"\/](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\")
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